2016 Presidential Straw Poll

Is Donald Trump a conservative? Trump’s entry into the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, and his meteoric rise in the polls after his announcement speech attacking the establishment elite, such as Jeb Bush, for backing the open borders policies that have allowed millions of illegal aliens to stay in the United States has prompted an update of the CHQ 2016 Republican Presidential Straw Poll. To vote in the CHQ 2016 Presidential Straw Poll click this link.

Although Indiana's principled limited government constitutional conservative Governor Mike Pence wasn't even at this year's CPAC, and he barely registered on the CPAC straw poll, Pence's name kept coming up as the one potential Republican presidential candidate who has all the tools necessary to rebuild the winning Republican coalition.

With NJ Governor Chris Christie’s reputation now seriously damaged by “Bridge-Gate” we here at CHQ are wondering if his problems haven’t cleared a path for another of the Republican establishment’s perennial favorites: former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.